Cree, Inc. announces the release of its second-generation SiC MOSFET, enabling systems to have higher efficiency and smaller size at cost parity with silicon-based solutions. These new 1200-V MOSFETs deliver industry-leading power density ...
Tags: SiC MOSFET, silicon-based solutions, silicon
Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA has released its second generation SiC MOSFET. According to the firm, the new 1200V MOSFETs deliver leading power density and switching efficiency at half the cost per amp of Cree’s previous generation ...
Tags: Cree, SiC MOSFET, solar circuits
Epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA says that the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics (Fraunhofer-IAF) of Freiburg, Germany, which develops electrical and optical ...
Tags: Epitaxial deposition, Veeco Instruments, Fraunhofer-IAF
Cree, Inc. announces the release of its second generation SiC MOSFET, enabling systems to have higher efficiency and smaller size at cost parity with silicon-based solutions. These new 1200V MOSFETs deliver power density and switching ...
Tags: Cree, Volume Production, power applications
Company Evonik Industries is now bringing on to the market the successful TAICROS crosslinking booster in yet another promising application: As an additive in UV-curable clear coatings, TAICROS ensures chemical resistance and improved ...
Tags: Evonik Industries, TAICROS, Coatings
Precious mediaeval books, usually displayed in glass cases and touchable only with gloves, can now be read in glorious 3D, thanks to a system unveiled at a tech fair in Germany. With the 3D interactive book explorer, developed by ...
Tags: Ancient books, 3D, tech fair
Smartphones, it seems, can do anything. Today's phones pack so much power and so many sensors into such a small space -- and at a relatively low cost -- that they are increasingly being used for inventive purposes. Just this week Strand ...
Tags: Smartphones, Google Nexus One, phone market
Oerlikon Leybold Vacuum has been awarded as one of the five best in class companies in technology management, identified within the European benchmarking study of the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology IPT. The Fraunhofer ...
Tags: Oerlikon Leybold Vacuum, technology management, Fraunhofer Institute
Glass provides building designers with fascinating creative options, and the popularity of the material has increased dramatically over the last decade. This has led to growing demand for glass over other construction materials like cement, ...
To help improve the performance of laser systems while reducing production costs, Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH of Regensburg, Germany is coordinating the project IMOTHEB (Integrated microoptical and microthermal elements for diode lasers ...
Tags: IR Laser Sources, Osram, Lighting
The aim is to increase the performance and lower the costs of laser systems for material processing As part of the ‘Integrated Microphotonics’ initiative, Osram Opto Semiconductors is coordinating the IMOTHEB project ...
Tags: BMBF project, Semiconductors
EPFL’s Institute of Microengineering(IMT) has achieved a 10.7% efficiency single-junction microcrystalline silicon solar cell, surpassing the previous world record of 10.1% held by the Japanese company Kaneka Corporation since 1998, ...
Tags: EPFL, IMT, single-junction microcrystalline silicon solar cell
Led by Ayodhya N. Tiwari, a team of researchers in the Laboratory for Thin Film and Photovoltaics at Empa (the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology) has raised the energy conversion efficiency record for copper ...
Tags: solar cells, solar electricity, solar
Osram, Bergische Universitt Wuppertal, the Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics, Airbus, and Diehl Aerospace partnered to study how chronobiologically-adapted LED lighting can enhance passenger wellbeing on long-distance ...
Tags: LED lighting, passenger, flights, aircraft cabin environment
A consortium of companies and research institutes from five European countries has joined forces to improve the brightness of high-power direct-diode laser . Having started in September, the three-year project 'BRIDLE' (Brilliant ...
Tags: DILAS, Brilliant Industrial Diode Laser, LED, high-power, direct-diode